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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.
The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.
We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
I've been lucky to be at companies that have been at interesting intersections at the time I've been able to run them and lead them.
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
Chinese... companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.
The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.
Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.
It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.
Far from doing what it can to ensure that the companies and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are European, the E.U. actively stifles innovation.
As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.
We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.
A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.
As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised.
If ailing British companies such as Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, British Airways and Cadbury can be turned around, there is still hope for the BBC.
Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.